“Family Values”
July 30th, 2008 11:50 pm by Kelly G.This is how Anthony Pagor, Dale Meyer, Brandon Meyer and Justin Williams of Eldorado, Wisconsin like to spend their weekends:
That’s right, torturing pigs. Fucking awesome, isn’t it, the way her eyes bulge out of her sockets and her tongue lolls out of her mouth as you squeeze every last bit of air out of her porcine lungs, isn’t it? What can be cooler than inflicting some unnecessary hurt on a “lower” life form, eh? Bet it makes y’all feel like quite the menz. Tomorrow you can haul her off to the slaughterhouse and come back with a freezer full of pork chops. You know, a MANLY MEAT!!!!! “Real food for real guys,” indeed.
Lest you think the lady folk are too compassionate for such cruelty, think again:
Guess they haven’t quite grasped the interconnectedness of oppressions. Maybe, one day as Jenna Marten’s future-husband is throttling her for burning dinner or raping her after a night out drinking with his friends, she’ll look back with horror on the time she and her sister Kendra tortured a hog with a similar amount of indifference and cruelty. Maybe she’ll even realize that what she did to the pig - grabbing her, slamming her to the ground, choking and hitting her - wasn’t all that different than the violence perpetrated on her by her own abuser. Nope, not that different at all.
And no, that’s not a threat, it’s a fact. An estimated 1 in 4 American women will face such abuse, usually at the hands of a family member, at least once in her life. I wish it weren’t so (oh dog, do I), but them’s the numbers. There’s a one on four chance that Jenna will be mistreated; a one in two chance that either her or her sister Kendra will one day be a victim in the cycle of violence. The same cycle they perpetuated a few weeks ago under the guise of “fun.”
Let’s just pause for a moment and consider that there were children in attendance. Children who witnessed these awful displays of cruelty. Children who learned that, sometimes, it’s ok to be cruel. Sometimes a little pain can even constitute the centerpiece of a “fun” family affair!
Speaking of good times and family values, let’s check out some more family snapshots from the Eldorado Community Picnic.
Here’s some unnamed good ole’ boy, smack talking a pig which he presumably defeated in the mid wrestling ring:
Four more unnamed fuckwits tackle one - one! - poor hog; collectively, they must outweigh her by a few hundred pounds at least:
And in this frame-worthy photo, two big strapping men squeeze a pig between two slats of wood - I’m guessing to hold and release her before the “match”? Which begs the question, how can they make the flimsiest of claims to “humaneness” when they don’t even have the necessary equipment to restrain these muddy and terrified animals?
I mean, just look at this pig’s face!
Don’t just glance at it and then quickly avert your eyes because it’s too uncomfortable, too painful. Seriously look at that picture.
Look at the pain written across the pig’s - let’s call her Wilbur -
(even though yes, I know, Wilbur was a dude pig, but we’ll name her Wilbur because I have been referring to her as a she since the beginning of this post)
just look at at the pain, the suffering, expressed on that innocent pig’s face.
Think of Wilbur, trapped between the bodies of two - no, four -
(christalmighty, there are four gown men slamming into her from all directions; how on dog’s green earth can this be legal!?)
- trapped between the bodies of four grown men, each of them pressing, slamming, hitting her from all sides. Think of how that must feel. The force. The impact. The pressure and the weight. The terror and panic at not knowing why these huge, loud, bald animals are torturing you senseless.
And while we’re staring at this photo, this document of abuse, let’s consider how Wilbur’s body even ended up in an upright vertical position. Pigs don’t walk on two legs. Why the fuck would Wilbur be standing like this?:
Well, clearly because the two current animal abusers / future woman/child abusers standing ventrally to her lifted her off the ground and launched her into the fucking air when they tackled her, full force.
It’s all just a fun day at the fair though, eh?
Well, you know, I’d like to ask Anthony Pagor, Dale Meyer, Brandon Meyer, Justin Williams, Jenna Marten, Kendra Marten, and all the other unnamed and anonymous “people” (a term I use loosely) something. Well, a lot of things, actually.
Would you treat a dog this way? Would you hurl a German Shepherd through the air, throw him around, hit and slap and punch him? No? Why not? Pigs are just as smart as dogs; only different is, one’s considered food, the other, a “pet”. At least, in our society. Other cultures make different distinctions. And, I might add, an animal’s level of intelligence and sentience (which is all that really matters when we’re discussing rights or even “welfare”; and yes, there is a difference) does not change when said animal crosses international borders.
Would you treat a three-year-old child this way? Again, pigs are as smart as three-year-olds. If your argument is that it’s ok to abuse pigs because they’re “stupid,” they’re no dumber than a young child. So what logically follows, then?
Would you treat a grown human adult this way? Would you gang up on an innocent stranger, four-to-one, and beat him (or her) senseless - without his permission? Because, remember, Wilbur did not consent to this. I’m sure she’d much rather be wallowing in a nice warm mud hole with her piglets somewhere. *
So just where do you get off abusing a pig for your own amusement and entertainment? How do you even get off by doing such a thing?
Because this picture:
made my gut wrench. I recoiled, visibly. I kind of gagged a little.
Truthfully, I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep tonight, not without seeing that pig’s tortured face in my dreams.
And you - you who hurt her - how will you sleep tonight?
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Link via Ryan of the Veg Blog.
* By the way, if you answered “yes” to any of the above, you’re a sick fuck and ought to go shoot yourself before you infect any more of humanity. Or get some psychiatric treatment. Honestly, as long as you do one or the other, I could not care but a whit.
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Tagged: animals animal rights animal welfare pig pigs pig wrestling hog hogs hog wrestling wisconsin eldorado animal abuse animal cruelty cruelty to animals parallel oppressions intersections violence state fair farmed animals livestock
July 31st, 2008 at 10:35 am
They have similar “games” where I come from. When I was a child I never participated, not because of a belief in animal ethics, but because I thought it was simply beyond the pale to wrestle a defenseless animal. What was the point? I often joked that as I understood it, we had evolved beyond such things. As I think about it further, those individuals participating were quite cavalier when they abused those hapless animals. It was telling indeed to see what types of people participated.
As I’ve become very involved in the ‘animal rights’ movement this confusion over why a human would do such things has moved to an utter disgust about how much suffering those animals have to experience for the end of our “entertainment.” It’s stunning.
August 8th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Hello!
It always amazes me how people can be so blind! The poor pigs i agree fully with you but isn’t it not at all funny that so many people who love animals in America see nothing wrong with burning alive with salt an unborn fully alive child in the womb for the sake of the Mother’s right to choose! Is that not really a bit more sick than any animal rights! You talk about some *********** raping a corpse but that does not come near abortionists who tear a child to pieces or puncture its head in order to abort it. Yes a CHILD, a living defenseless human being! Ah no it is still tissue, and in a worst case scenario it was the child’s fault Her mother was raped and that her father was a rapist
August 8th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Take your concern trolling elsewhere, Joe.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:00 am
I wasn’t finished before that post submitted itself, obviously it is not the child’s fault but you prochoice feminists treat her as if it was her fault. Thats not feminism, thats blindness and probably hatred. All my details above are false, i just used them to try and make you open your eyes a bit more. I agree with you on some things but this God hating and pro choice stuff is lunacy. Lunacy is not the proper word. Killing unborn children and then complaining about cruelty to animals is slightly hypocritical. Hating God does not make much sense either as most of the people on the planet believe in Him and so they can’t be all deluding themselves can they? They must have some reasonable reasons for believing in Him? They must be experiencing Him in their lives in a real way.
EX atheist
August 8th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Joe - where to begin?
Regarding my atheism, I don’t “hate” God, because there’s no point in hating something that doesn’t exist. Rather, I hate that people use their religious beliefs as a means of forcing their silly superstitions on others, myself included. And no, the fact that a majority of earthlings believe in God, is not evidence of his/her/its existence. Prior to the Germ Theory of disease, people blamed sickness on God, witches and the Jews; following your line of logic, this means that God, witches and the Jews did in fact cause disease until the late 1800s, when the Germ Theory gained acceptance. Kinda silly, no? The popularity of an idea says nothing of its validity.
As far as abortion and animal rights, your concern trolling is showing. Let me guess - you eat meat, no? I bet you also think God put animals on earth for our pleasure. So, fuck off. You don’t give a shit about the welfare of animals, nor do you give a shit about the welfare of women. You know, those women your precious feti are squatting in. Those women whose rights you want to violate in the name of potential babies.
I’m not going to waste my time arguing with you; however, if anyone would like to know how I reconcile my pro-choice beliefs with my animal rights philosophy, go read this FAQ by Gary Francione.
And Joe, please take any further inquiries to the Finally, a Feminism 101 blog. I have neither the time nor patience to deal with your woman- and animal-hating stupidity.
August 29th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Gosh Woman i did not have to read much before i found a slight contradiction
“”"”"”The fact that we are in some sense responsible for the existence of a being does not give us the right to treat that being as our resource (((((Or reject it as our resource or property?))))). Were that so, then we could treat our children as resources. After all, they would not exist were it not for our actions–from decisions to conceive to decisions not to abort. And although we are granted a certain amount of discretion as to how we treat our children, there are limits: we cannot treat them as we do animals. We cannot enslave them, sell them into prostitution, or sell their organs. We cannot kill them. Indeed, it is a cultural norm that bringing a child into existence creates moral obligations on the part of the parents to care for the child and not exploit her.”"”"”"”"
Gosh Woman and the next paragraph talks about us not having the right to treat CHILDREN as our property. That site you recommend seems to contradict what you say. Maybe i am not giving myself enough time to read it.
About the God thing someone once said “I hate Jesus- that’s given” but they don’t hate God! They only hate a person a huge amount of people believe to be God. God doesn’t exist of course you are absolutely right, 70,000 people who were in fatima on the 13th of October in 1917 would agree with you. Padre Pio will agree with you, Saint Bernadette’s 129 year old corpse will agree with you, Saint Catherine Laboure ’s 132 year old Corpse will also agree with you one day, my Mother will agree with, my eyes will agree with you, Sr Briege mcKenna (once wheelchair bound with Arthritis will agree with you, (How many amazing cures she has witnessed and been an instrument of) Marion Carroll who was nearly paralysed with MS for 17 years will agree with you, (Maybe she was only acting for 17 years)
All the people who have visited Medjugorje and seen extraordinary things will agree with you. You know humans are the only animals that kill their young. In Nature mothers will nearly fight to death to save their young but human animals will kill their young.
If you were in the third world would you eat meat? Do you think the starving people there should be allowed to kill animals to survive? In a Hurricane situation would you save the animals first? Would you save any people at all? perhaps save the women and let the rest perish? !!!
I don’t know, i just don’t know. I do not agree with animal cruelty or with killing anything especially children. Squatting is hardly the right term to describe pregnancy. Did you squat in your mother’s womb? If you could have objected to your mother wanting to abort you would you if she had wanted to?
August 29th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
If you could have objected to your mother wanting to abort you would you if she had wanted to?
No Jo, after reading your comment, I find myself wishing she had aborted me, if only to spare me from your nonsensical rambling.
By the by, fetuses are not children. Given that this isn’t a difficult concept to grasp, I don’t understand why you godbags insist on conflating the two.
August 31st, 2008 at 10:12 am
What can i say? i’m stuck! flabbergasted even, what can i say?
I am of course glad that your mother did not think of aborting you or else your website would not exist, you of course would exist in Heaven,
(My mother had a very early miscarriage when i was about 7 and my father found the body and buried the child down in our local cemetry, my father was from the country and the marriage was not very good and they never spoke about the miscarriage or anything much else either, a few years ago we had a healing Mass for our family and a day or two later my mother woke up after a quick nap on the couch and saw a young man holding the hand of a knee high transparent foetus and then they both disappeared, she got a shock but felt that the young man was her miscarried son, (She had named him Enda at the time of the miscarriage) they say mothers get a sense of these things, but she did not know what the foetus meant, after mentioning the experience to my father he told her in a gruff voice “Sherr you had twins”, he had found and buried the absolutely tiny bodies and had never told her that it was twins. She had recognised and named the one child she knew she had but the other one needed to be named and loved as well.)
A Foetus has a head and arms and legs and a brain and can seem to be in a joyful state etc so is that not an unborn child? Have a look at the pictures of some aborted foetus. They look like children.
I know mothers can be in a dire situation, i know they can be pressurised to have the abortion by family , husbands, society etc but abortion is not the answer. And if they do have an abortion they need to recognise the truth and ask God to forgive all the people who were involved in that process. And to trust that God forgives them totally and the Child is with Him and that the Child loves the mother. They need healing. I know women have abortions because of rape, but killing the child wont avenge the rapist will it? No it will only add guilt to the girl and make another victim in the whole thing, a dead victim. Why should anyone have the right to decide if another person should live? Our lives are our most precious possession. Nobody has a right to take that from us, nobody has a right to assault us or to ever treat us badly.
Thanks for taking the time to reply,
Ex Atheist
September 1st, 2008 at 6:47 pm
I am of course glad that your mother did not think of aborting you or else your website would not exist, you of course would exist in Heaven,
OK, I’ll bite. If “Heaven” is so awesome, isn’t a prospective mom actually doing her child a favor by aborting it and sending the fetus to Heaven 75 years ahead of schedule? If you think about it, there’s all kinds of dirty sinning these potential people can engage in on earth, all of which might blow their chances at an eternity spent with THE LORD; not so if mom aborts the little bugger. Which begs the question: Shouldn’t all loving Christian mothers flush out their wombs on a bi-monthly basis?
September 1st, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Oh, and this thread? Official jacked.
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